| Allen, Eric |
Assistant Professor of Biology, Marine Biology |
UCSD |
(858) 534-2570 |
Environmental genomics; Microbial oceanography, ecology, evolution, biogeography; Genetic structure of microbial populations; Molecular genetics and ecological physiology. |
| Azam, Farooq |
Professor, Marine Microbiology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
UCSD |
(858)534-6850 |
Marine microbial ecology; marine biogeochemistry; aquaculture microbiology. Biochemical adaptations of marine bacteria. Role of bacteria in marine food-web dynamics. Microbial biogeochemistry. |
| Bartlett, Douglas H. |
Professor of Marine Microbial Genetics |
UCSD |
(858) 534-5233 |
Adaptation of deep-sea bacteria to high pressure and low temperature; Virulence determinants in vibrios;Environmental adaptation of vibrios; Detection of pathogens in the marine environment; Functional genomics of selected marine microbes. |
| Brahamsha, Bianca |
Assistant Research Microbiologist |
UCSD |
(858) 534-7505 |
Molecular biology and physiology of cyanobacteria; bacterial motility and chemotaxis; bacterial diversity. |
| Brunk, Clifford F. |
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Co-chair, Biology |
UCLA |
(310)825-3114 |
Characterization of marine microbial populations using molecular techniques; quantitative polymearse chain reaction analysis of coastal marine bacteria including species distributions and dynamics of population change. |
| Butler, Alison |
Professor, Chemistry |
UCSB |
(805)893-8178 |
Bioinorganic chemistry; metallobiochemistry with an emphasis on the roles of metal ions in the catalytic activity of metalloenzymes. |
| Calvert, Christopher |
Professor of Animal Sciences |
UCD |
(530)752-1269 |
Protein and energy metabolism. |
| Conrad, Patricia A. |
Professor/Parasitologist, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunol |
UCD |
(530)752-7210 |
Molecular biology, immunology and characterization of pathogenic protozoa. Special interest in the characterization, pathogenesis and molecular epidemiology of protozoa parasites (e.g., Toxoplasma gondii, Sarcocystis neurona) that cause neurologic disease in marine and humans. |
| Felbeck, Horst |
Professor of Marine Biology |
UCSD |
(858) 534-6647 |
Physiology of hydrothermal vent community animals; interactions between invertebrates and chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts; molecular approaches to study the metabolism of bacterial symbionts. |
| Foltz, Kathleen R. |
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
UCSB |
(805)893-4774 |
Reproduction and fertilization: biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology of fertilization; signal transduction during egg activation in echinoderms; fertilization and cell cycle regulation in response to environmental factors. |
| Gaasterland, Terry |
Director, Scripps Genome Center; Professor, Computational Biology |
UCSD |
(858) 822-4600 |
Alternative Splicing in Eukaryotic Genes; Microbial Genome Annotation; Regulation of RNA. |
| Gardner, Ian A. |
Associate Professor/Epidemiologist, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology |
UCD |
(530)752-6992 |
Infectious diseases of mammals |
| German, Bruce |
Professor, Food Science and Technology |
UCD |
(530)752-1486 |
Marine biotechnology: dietary and metabolic regulation of lipid composition and function; oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids; physical properties of lipids; lipoprotein remodeling; study of marine lipids to understand the molecular basis of membrane composition of fishes. |
| Gerwick, Lena |
Research Scientist |
UCSD |
(858) 534-0566 |
Zebrafish; innate Immunity
Genomics; drug Discovery. |
| Gilardi, Kirsten |
Coordinator UC Davis Wildlife Health Center Marine Ecosystem Health Program |
UCD |
(530)752-4896 |
Shark toxicology; efficacy of acoustic deterrence methods. |
| Halpern, Benjamin S. |
Assistant Researcher, Marine Science Institute |
UCSB |
(805) 892-2531 |
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| Hansma, Paul K. |
Professor, Physics |
UCSB |
(805)893-2523 |
Design, construction, testing and operation of new scanning probe microscopes for applications ranging from biomineralization to protein structural dynamics. |
| Haygood, Margo G. |
Professor of Marine Biology |
UCSD |
(858) 534-5987 |
Molecular biology of symbiosis; iron transport and regulation in marine bacteria; production of bioactive compounds by microbial symbionts; molecular evolution. |
| Hedrick, Ronald P. |
Professor of Medicine & Epidemology |
UCD |
(530)752-3411 |
Fish: Infectious diseases of fish and shellfish pathogenesis of microbial diseases; characterization of the causative agents of new diseases, particularly viral, myxosporean, and microsporean parasites. |
| Hedrick, Jerry L. |
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology |
UCD |
(530)752-3192 |
Fish, fertilization in fish; the molecular and cellular biology of gamete interactions; structure-function relations of proteins and glycoproteins; lectins; proteases; cellular and molecular biology of fertilization. |
| Holland, Nicholas D. |
Professor of Marine Biology |
UCSD |
(858) 534-2085 |
Developmental evolution (using comparative molecular genetics to establish body part homologies between distantly related animals), with attention to the origin of the vertebrates from the invertebrates. |
| Jacobs, Robert |
Professor, Pharmacology, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology |
UCSB |
(805)893-3094 |
Utilization of marine natural products as probes in studying the steps of certain molecular and cellular processes; specifically, cell cycle kinetics, synaptic transmission, and pain and inflammatory processes. |
| Jiang, Sunny |
Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology |
UCI |
(949) 824-5527 |
Microbial ecology; diversity and dynamics of marine viruses, bacteria and virus interaction, lysogeny and gene transduction; the role of viruses in the microbial loop. |
| Krochta, John |
Professor |
UCD |
(530)752-2164 |
Marine chemistry: chemical packaging; bipolymer films to control mass transfer in food and biological systems; fish packing. |
| Latz, Michael I. |
Research Biologist and Senior Lecturer MBRD/CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)534-6579 |
Flow sensing in phytoplankton: transduction and intracellular signaling, changes in gene expression; sensory biology; physiological control of bioluminescence. |
| Mohr, Frederick C. |
Associate Professor Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
UCD |
(530)752-7234 |
Cell pathology, immunotoxicology, mast cell biology, signal transduction, cellular calcium regulation, immunotoxicology |
| Molinski, Tadeusz F. |
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry |
UCSD |
(858) 534-7115 |
Organic chemistry; chemical/geochemical/ biogeochemical oceanography: marine natural products, drugs from the sea; pharmaceutical potential of marine antifungal agents from marine invertebrates; chemical synthesis of marine natural products. |
| Morse, Aileen N.C. |
Assistant Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute |
UCSB |
(805)893-4277 |
Molecular marine biology; role of chemosensory mechanisms in recruitment of planktonic invertebrate larvae; marine biotechnology, applications for aquaculture, bioremediation and medicine. |
| Morse, Daniel E. |
Director, Institute for Collaborative Biotecnologies; Professor, Molecular, |
UCSB |
(805)893-3157 |
Molecular marine biology and marine biotechnology; new materials from marine resources; marine resource biology. |
| Murray, James |
Professor |
UCD |
(530)752-3179 |
Marine biotechnology: Animal transgenics. |
| Palenik, Brian |
Associate Professor of Marine Biology MBRD |
UCSD |
(858)534-7505 |
Phytoplankton: adaptation of phytoplankton to their physical and chemical environments, especially nutrient limitation and metal toxicity; phytoplankton evolution; protein structure, function, and evolution. |
| Polne-Fuller, Miriam |
Director, Research Mentorship Program, Summer Sessions; Research Biologist, |
UCSB |
(805)893-3057 |
Seaweed biotechnology: protoplast and cell development and differentiation, callus induction and tissue manipulations; seaweed aquaculture; marine amoebae as recyclers and seaweed pathogens. |
| Schweighofer, Karl J. |
Visiting Researcher |
UCSC |
831-459-3924 |
Various aspects of computational biology, including comparative genomics, structural bioinformatics, metabonomics, and gene expression analysis, mainly applied to metagenomic data from marine ecosystems.
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| Singh, Paul |
Professor |
UCD |
(530)752-0811 |
Processing of marine products for food: food engineering. |
| Stein, Jeffrey L. |
Research Associate CMBB/MBRD |
UCSD |
(858)538-5780 |
Genetic characterization of uncultivated microbes; expression and characterization of pathways encoding bioactive compounds; molecular and biochemical adaptations to extreme environments. |
| Stott, Jeffery L. |
Associate Professor/Associate Immunologist |
UCD |
(530)752-2543 |
Immunology infectious disease. Immunopathogenesis of viral and bacterial diseases. Immunomodulation of the mucosal immune system. Developmental and comparative immunology of marine mammal species and zoo animals. |
| Stucky, Galen D. |
Professor, Chemistry Biochemistry; Professor Materials |
UCSB |
(805)893-4872 |
Marine biotechnology: bomaterials and bioinspired materials assembly and properties. Biosensor and biochip design. |
| Taylor, Steven W. |
Assistant Researcher, CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)534-8139 |
Marine biochemistry: post-translationally modified polypeptides from marine invertebrates; marine bioinorganic chemistry: metal-binding polypeptides; marine biotechnology: bioadhesion, antimicrobial properties, and anticorrosion properties of polypeptides. |
| Tchobanoglous, George |
Professor, Emeritus |
UCD |
(530)752-1440 |
Marine biotechnology: water quality management and design of aquatic systems. |
| Tebo, Bradley M. |
Research Biologist/Senior Lecturer MBRD/CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)534-5470 |
Marine organic biogeochemistry; the biogeochemical cycling of manganese, iron, and trace metals in marine environments (anoxic basins, surface waters, and hydrothermal vents); physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of bacteria that catalyze metal transformations; microbial chemoautotrophy; bioremediation, marine biotechnology; biomineralization. |
| Vacquier, Victor D. |
Professor of Marine Biology MBRD/CMBB |
UCSD |
(858)534-4803 |
Marine invertebrate molecular biology; fertilization in marine invertebrates; molecular biology of gamete recognition proteins in marine invertebrates; invertebrate immunity. |
| Waite, J. Herbert |
Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology |
UCSB |
(805)893-2817 |
Biochemistry and biophysics of adhesion proteins in mussels. |
| Wilt, Fred H. |
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology |
UCB |
(510)642-2807 |
Marine biotechnology; mechanisms of biomineralization; molecular and cellular basis of mineralization of spicules and shells including calcium deposition and matrix formation. |
| Ziccardi, Michael |
Wildlife Veterinarian, Wildlife Health Center |
UCD |
(530)754-8701 |
Wildlife epidemiology: development of molecular biomarkers/bioassays; effects of petroleum products on wildlife; infectious disease epidemiology of captive wildlife species; marine ecotoxicology. |
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